Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were 197 conversions out of the city's 36,000 housing units in the first nine months of 1977, but the city's threat to rent control by conversion is seen much more as a potential than as a current phenomenon. Harlow Properties plans to convert all 500 of its housing units and has only been prevented by a marketing study that urged a delay in order to prevent a glut. Unchecked, the conversions will whittle away at the supply of available low and middle income housing. The elderly in Cambridge are especially vulnerable, as most live on fixed...
...they are perplexed by the residency requirement and cautious about Superintendent Lannon. Holway and Kennedy have taken revitalization of neighborhood schools, especially the elementary school, as their personal causes. Kennedy and Ragno are first-time candidates while Holway finished a strong seventh two years ago and poses the greatest threat to the incumbents...
...resolution would persuade Pretoria to ease the strictures of apartheid and repression. Young gained the support of the other Western members of the Security Council (Britain, France, Canada and West Germany) for a carefully worded resolution that would impose the arms sanctions and also brand South Africa "a threat to international peace and security." With the help of Tanzania's Ambassador Salim Salim and Nigeria's Leslie Harriman, Young then began negotiations with the 49-member African group, the U.N.'s largest bloc. Most of the Africans favored the far stronger action of all-out economic sanctions...
...largest threat yet to the completion of Harvard's $110 million Medical Area power plant came last week from a most unlikely place...
These features would be worthwhile only under the presumption that the Soviets would do nothing to counteract a new threat to their land-based missiles, that the U.S. was interested in launching a first-strike against the Soviet Union, or that the Americans had given up all hope of negotiated arms ceilings. But these assumptions are not, or should not be, true. The facts show that the MX would be more costly than useful, would be dangerously destabilizing, and would present problems of verification that would severely hamper future efforts at arms control...